The Ontological War

I started this blog mostly to explain the battle between those who think we should become more our realselves and those who think we should reject that self, but I’ve come to realize that I also need to spend more time explaining what the basic ontological terms mean.
To digress for a moment, I live in [...]

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The ontological world each of us lives in is determined by our degree of realself: those of us who are being mostly if not almost entirely our socialselves live in the socialself world, and those of us who are sensitive to our realselves live in ontological worlds that are made up of more of the [...]

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In a previous post I wrote “My opinion of the Catholic Church has plummeted over the last few years.”
In response, many will say, with justification, “we don’t care what your opinion is, we want to know facts, what’s true and what isn’t. Is the Catholic Church alienated or isn’t it?” But by looking at this [...]

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On one of the groups I’m on someone asked about Colin Wilson and his book The Outsider.
To understand Colin Wilson a person first has to understand the two kinds of alienation, which are worlds apart. In “World A” all of us normal, healthy, well-adjusted people look at those who are maladjusted, neurotic, and worse and [...]

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The following excerpt from an autobiographical sketch by DH Lawrence is probably my favorite passage of any I have ever read. Lawrence was sometimes described as “maladjusted,” but what this passage actually shows, at least to the ontologically insightful, is that he was sensitive enough to know that human existence is unacceptably wrong and needs [...]

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I’m not much of a fan of devoting one’s life to changing “the world,” for several reasons.
First of all, focusing mainly on the world can be an easy out. It’s much easier to think “My life would be great if only the world would change into what I think it should be” or “My life [...]

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Someone brought up the subject of depression on one of the lists I’m on, and this is my reply:
To me, there are two main reason for depression, both of which come from our misunderstanding of ourselves and our self.
We all like to believe that we are living life fully as ourselves in reality. But once [...]

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